Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1954. Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- rooted-rood-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Church Road, Aylburton
- OS grid reference
- SO 617 019
- Coordinates
- 51.71497, -2.55548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican parish church primarily dating from the early 14th century. However, the entire building was relocated from its original site and rebuilt in its current position in 1856. It is constructed of coursed and squared sandstone, topped with stone slate roofs featuring coped gables and a terminal cross on the chancel. The church comprises a west tower, nave, south aisle, south porch, and chancel.
The tower is two stages high, set on a deep plinth, and features a hipped roof with two small gables at the ridge. It has square louvred belfry lights, a roll mould mid string course, a small single opening to the west, and a ringers' door accessed by nine steps leading to a pointed arch at the southeast corner. The south aisle includes a lancet window to the west and various 14th-century windows, along with a deep porch that has a double plan chamfer opening. The inner door features a plain chamfer, and there is a niche with flanking figures above it. The east aisle has a three-light window.
On the south side of the chancel, there is a round-headed priest's door and a two-light window with cusping under a square head. The east end features a two-light window with an irregular sexfoil above it. A commemorative panel on this wall reads: "This chapel was removed from the place where it stood on the hill above nearly without alteration M D CCC L VI." The north side of the chancel has a two-light window with ogee-head cusping, and there are five two-light windows in a 14th-century design between deep buttresses with double offsets on the north side of the nave.
Inside, the church features a five-bay arcade supported by octagonal piers with moulded caps and double-chamfered arches. The roof is arch-braced, and the north side windows have flat rere-arches in two chamfered orders. The chancel arch is moulded in the 14th century style, and there is a fine 15th-century octagonal stone pulpit on a reconstructed base. The chancel roof is also arch-braced, and there is a round bowl 15th-century font on a square base. Some medieval glass fragments can be found in the east window of the south aisle.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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